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• 'Caracas Crackpot' Continues Attack

CARACAS, Venezuela Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez launched yet another verbal assault against President Bush upon returning from a highly charged U.S. visit Friday, calling on the American leader to resign. Chavez also suggested that New York city police were behind a electrical disruption during his speech Thursday in Harlem, but police denied the allegation.

• The Columbian
• September 26, 2006

• Chavez Says Bush Should Resign 'If He has Any Dignity' ; Accuses N.Y.C. Cops of Marring Talk

CARACAS, Venezuela Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez launched yet another verbal assault against President Bush upon returning from a highly charged U.S. visit Friday, calling on the American leader to resign. Chavez also suggested that New York City police were behind a electrical disruption during his speech Thursday in Harlem, but police denied the allegation.

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• September 25, 2006

• Chavez's Job Goes to Vote in Venezuela ; Critic of U.S. Goes for Another 6-Year Term

CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez sought another six- year term Sunday in an election that once again highlighted Venezuela's class divisions and could further entrench one of the Bush administration's most defiant Latin American critics. Mr. Chavez led in various pre-election polls over Manuel Rosales, a former state governor who has galvanized the opposition by promising to unseat a leader he accuses of steering Venezuela toward Cuba-style, one-man rule.

• Augusta Chronicle, The
• December 11, 2006

• Venezuela: another Jewish exodus.

CARACAS -- Monday morning starts like any other. Traffic i...

• World Policy Journal
• Vol. 28 Nbr. 4, December 2011

• Rising Numbers of Venezuelans Seek Asylum in U.S.

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Gisela Parra started trembling behind the steering wheel and nearly hit another car when she heard the news over the radio: She had been charged with trying to overthrow President Hugo Chavez. Fearing she would end up behind bars on what she says are trumped- up accusations, she boarded a private yacht in the middle of the night and escaped to the Dutch Caribbean island of Curacao, her gateway to the United States and political asylum.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• July 29, 2007

• Crude Oil Futures Rose to a Record $46

.75 a barrel on concern supply from Venezuela, the fourth- largest exporter to the U.S., may be disrupted by violence after a gunman fired on voters in Sunday's referendum. One person was killed and another 12 injured in Venezuela's capital of Caracas as they stood in line to vote on whether to recall President Hugo Chavez. Petroleos de Venezuela, the state oil company, doubled security at its fields, refineries and storage tanks before the vote.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• August 16, 2004

• Chavez Expects Victory As Venezuelans Vote

CARACAS, Venezuela President Hugo Chavez sought another six- year term Sunday in an election that weighed the popularity of his oil-funded handouts to the poor against fears of increasingly authoritarian rule by one of the Bush administration's most outspoken overseas opponents. Chavez anticipated a crushing victory over tough-talking political veteran Manuel Rosales, who has galvanized the opposition by promising to unseat a man he accuses of edging the country toward totalitarianism.

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• December 04, 2006

• The Trial (and Errors) of Hugo Chávez

CARACAS-IN APRIL 2006, AFTER a failed attempt to demolish the structurally unsafe bridge on the highway connecting Caracas with the Port of La Guaira, the Chávez opposition expressed outrage at government incompetence. Manuel Rosales, the opposition candidate in the December 2006 presidential elections, accused President Hugo Chávez of "allowing the Caracas-La Guaira bridge to collapse" and "having inaugurated scores of public works projects without completing them. On June 21, 2007, President Chávez inaugurated a new bridge that is 180 feet high and half a mile long-longer than the original one. The construction was on schedule and in time for the kickoff of the America Soccer Cup. In a jab at the opposition, the main state-controlled TV channel declared, "You can't cover up the accom...

... up the accomplishment with a finger." In another plus for Chávez, nine modern, well-designed stadi...

• In These Times
• August 21, 2009

• 26 CFR 1.274-4 - Disallowance of certain foreign travel expenses.

... were followed by business meetings with another business group in London on the immediately succee... passengers, and while en route stops in Caracas, Venezuela for a vacation and returns to Chicago f...

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 26: Internal Revenue

• Venezuelan Students Protest

CARACAS, Venezuela - Police and soldiers fired water cannons and plastic bullets Thursday as thousands of students protested against a law passed by Venezuela's congress that increases the government's powers over the country's universities. At least four people were injured, including a news photographer who was treated for a cut to the head after being hit with an object.

... to continue the march through Caracas on another route, evading authorities who were firing water c...

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• December 24, 2010